Beethoven Overture: Coriolan
PHILHARMONIA/VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
7.15* Brahms Four Ballades, Op 10
STEPHEN BISHOP KOVACEVICH (piano)
7.34* Faure, orch Rutter Cantique de Jean Racine CAMBRIDGE SINGERS
CITY OF LONDON SINFONIA/
JOHN RUTTER
7.41* Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien
ISRAEL PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN
8.0 News
8.5 Michel Corrette Concerto comique No 25 (Les sauvages et la furstemberg)
MUSICA ANTIQUA, COLOGNE
8.15* Haydn Symphony No 1, ino
LESTROARMONICO directed by DEREK SOLOMONS (violin)
8.29* Sibelius Incidental Music: Pelleas and Melisande
GOTHENBURG SO/NEEME JARVI records
Producer ANTHONY CHEEVERS

Hector Berlioz (1803-69)
Under the combined influence of poetry, music and association, I would work myself up into an incredible state of excitement.... What madness, many will say. Yes, but what happiness.
(Memoirs)
This week's programmes reflect Berlioz's passion for literature. Overture: Le Roi Lear
SNO/SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
Le ballet des ombres, for chorus and piano: HEINRICH schutz CHOIR AND CHORALE PETER SMITH (piano) directed by ROGER NORRINGTON La mort d'Ophelie; Marche funebre, pour la derniere scene d'Hamlet: JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR
LSO/SIR COLIN DAVIS
Scene de bal (Romeo et Juliette, Op 17): ORCHESTRE DE PARIS; DANIEL BARENBOIM records
Producer JUDITH ROLES

Sonata in c (d 279) Sonata in B (D 575)
MARTIN ROSCOE (piano) BBC Manchester (R)

Turina Fiesta en San Juan de Aznalfarache (Sinfonia sevillana)
SPANISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA;
ATAULFO ARGENTA
FaUa Nights in the Gardens of Spain
ALICIA DE LARROCHA (piano)
LPO/RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS records

SUSAN KESSLER (mezzo-soprano) GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
Grieg Mens jeg venter; Vaaren; Eros; Fra Monte Pincio; Med en vandlilje
Grainger The pretty maid milkin' her cow; Six dukes went a-fishin'; The power of love; The sprig of thyme
Quilter Three Pastoral Songs (I will go with my father a-ploughing; Cherry Valley; I wish and I wish); Song of the blackbird (R)

leader PAUL BARRITT conducted by Nicholas Kraemer Fiona Dobie (soprano)
Evelyn Nallen (recorder)
Tippett Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli Alan Ridout Recorder Concerto Britten Les Illuminations (R)

direct from St John's, Smith Square, London
Roman Jablonski (cello)
Krystyna Borucinskaya (piano) Bach Suite No 2, in D minor (Bwv 1008)
Chopin Sonata in G minor, Op 65 (Re-broadcast next Sunday)
(Tickets. £2. available from 11.0am today. or in advance from the Box Office, tel [number removed])

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Auber's 'Fra Diavolo A talk by Rodney Milnes ;
Silbermann and the Clavichord: A conversation with Derek Adiam ;
David Murray reviews a new biography of Olivier Messiaen ; Parentem nostrae musicae modernae; Jerome Roche reassesses the reputation of Heinrich Schutz , one of the fathers of German music. Producers GRAHAM SHEFFIELD and ANDREW LYLE

Rossini Overture: La Cenerentola: CAPELLA
COLONIENSIS/GABRIELE FERRO Josquin des Pres Fortuna desperata; Sij'ay perdu mon amy; Helas madame: La plus des plus: MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE OF LONDON directed by PETER DAVIES and TIMOTHY DA VIES
Handel Overture in D, for two clarinets and corno di caccia L'ECOLE D'ORPHEE
Bach Sonata in c minor, for violin and continuo (BWV 1024)
LONDON BAROQUE
Tallis Motet: Spem in alium TALUS SCHOLARS/PETER PHILLIPS Mozart Quartet in D minor
(K 421): SALOMON STRING QUARTET Haydn Symphony No 94, in G (Surprise)
ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

Presented by Geoffrey Norris Producer RICHARD BUTT BBC Birmingham

CHRISTOPHER HEHRICK on the 1855 Ladegast organ in Merseburg Cathedral, East Germany Liszt Ave maris Stella
Mendelssohn Sonata in D minor, Op 65 No
Liszt Consolation in D flat
Mendelssohn Sonata in B flat, Op 65 No
BBC Manchester

RAPHAEL WALLFISCH (Cello) LINN HENDRY (piano) Barber Sonata, Op 6
Bernstein Two Meditations Lukas Foss Capriccio BBC Manchester (R)

A pastoral in three acts Music by Handel Anonymous libretto after Valeriano
(sung in Italian): records
In this 1736 Royal Wedding celebration each couple remains steadfast; but disguise and tests of fidelity make love's course run with difficulty.
SA V ARIA VOCAL ENSEMBLE
CAPELLA SAVARIA conducted by NICHOLAS MCGEGAN Act

The landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, in conversation with Stephen Games, talks about the allegorical ideas behind the creation of gardens such as Runnymede and Sutton Place, and reflects on what he feels he has achieved.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS

Act 2

9.50* Act 3

An anthology of poetry on the theme of'filthy lucre' compiled by Paul Chand
Readers BRETT USHER, KERRY SHALE and BETH PORTER
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham

(1935-1982)
Last of three programmes of the music and playing of this Polish pianist and composer
Andre Tchaikowsky Trio
Notturno PETER FRANKL (piano) GYORGY PAUK (violin)
RALPH KlRSHBAUM (cello) (R)
Schubert Sonata in B flat major (D 960) (R)